According to the State Frontier Service of Ukraine, Poland was the most popular destination for travellers from Ukraine in 2017. Nearly 10 million visitors from Ukraine crossed the border indicating Poland as their destination, many of them apparently more than once, the state statistics service Ukrstat informed.
Top-7 countries where over 1 million Ukrainians travelled in 2017
Among top-7 countries that welcomed over 1 million visitors from Ukraine in 2017 are Poland, Russia, Hungary, Moldova, Belarus, Turkey, and Romania.
- The majority of foreign trips were for a private visit.
- Most business travellers went to Belarus (42 thousand). The second most popular business trip destination was Russia (28 thousand).
Ukrainians are able to visit countries of the European Union without a visa from 1 June 2017. However, this didn’t change the overall number of tourists to those countries as compared to 2016, the border control service informed.
Top-40 travel destinations for Ukrainians in 2017
- Poland: 9,990,978
- Russia: 4,376,423
- Hungary: 3,118,758
- Moldova: 1,680,353
- Belarus: 1,186,466
- Turkey: 1,185,051
- Romania: 1,045,424
- Slovakia: 854,657
- Egypt: 733,597
- Germany: 344,150
- Italy: 173,573
- United Arab Emirates: 166,586
- Israel: 155,074
- Austria: 115,406
- Netherlands: 114,374
- Spain: 112,982
- Georgia: 111,981
- France: 106,697
- Greece: 104,774
- Czech Republic: 73,536
- United Kingdom: 63,920
- Bulgaria: 58,597
- Cyprus: 58,326
- Lithuania: 54,867
- Latvia: 54,831
- Montenegro: 40,413
- Kazakhstan: 39,147
- Switzerland: 36,589
- United States: 32,660
- Azerbaijan: 27,386
- Sweden: 24,215
- China: 23,107
- Belgium: 20,891
- Tunisia: 19,793
- Thailand: 17,777
- Armenia: 15,432
- Estonia: 14,542
- Qatar: 14,236
- Finland: 14,146
- Sri Lanka: 9,706
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Only one person visited Canada? There are more people going to Afghanistan than Canada? Really?
Michael,
It does look weird with the amount of Ukrainians in Canada (second highest population outside Ukraine, first in Russia).
Maybe there are no direct flights to Canada, so people travel to another country first?